Improvement in cuspadores



E. A. HEATH. Ouspadores.

No. 19:8,199. Patented Dec. 18, 1877 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

EUGENE A. HEATH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUSPADORES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,199, dated December18, 1877 application filed October 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE A. HEATH, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements inOuspadores, of which the following is a specification This invention hasfor its object the production of a cuspadore that shall be capable ofrapid construction with the least possible use of manuallabor, and fromsuch cheap materials that its cost of production is reduced to theminimum, while in exterior appearance it possesses all the advantages ofthe more costly grade of vessels.

The invention consists in forming the body or base of the cuspadore ofwood, paper, pulp of any nature, glass, porcelain, earthenware, or otherequally cheap material of a kindred nature, while the receiving-mouth tobe attached thereto is constructed from light metal, the two parts beingcombined, applied, and used in the manner as will hereinafter be fullyshown and described.

In the drawings, which form an essential part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a cuspadore in which is fully embodied my invention,and Fig. 2 are sectional elevations thereof.

The same letters of reference marked on the two drawings will locatecorresponding parts.

Heretofore cuspadores have invariably been constructed wholly from lightmaterials, such as paper or rubber, or wholly of metal; in some cases ofsheet metal alone,in others from sheet and castmetal combined. Allsuchforms of construction are costly, owing to the large amount ofhand-labor that must necessarily be bestowed thereon in the process oftheir fabrication.

The vast demand for a cheap grade of cuspadores has thus far beenunsatisfied, and it is to supplythis d'esideratum that I have made mypresent invention.

In the drawings, Arepresents the body or bowl of the vessel. Ipreferably form it from wood of a nature suited to the purpose, turningit from a solid block, or in two sections, which are afterward united byglue. In either form the production is very rapid, as automaticmachinery may be used, the greater amount of hand-labor being dispensedwith, and that used being of the lower orderof skill.

It is obvious that the shape of the body of the vessel may be of theconventional form usually adopted in cuspadores, or varied in shape tosuit demands. In theprocess of turning out the interior the shell may beleft of a uniform thickness, as shown in the drawings, or it may be leftthicker at the base in case it is desired to have the vessel aself-righting one, the opening a in the top of the vessel-body beinggaged to receive the short neck of the metallic mouth. The interior ofthe vesselbody is also treated to a coating of proper water-proofmaterials or solutions, or the entire body of wood may be saturated byany of the well known means adopted for rendering porous materialsimpervious to water.

The receiving-mouth B is constructed from sheet metal by any of theusual mechanical processes, and in form is preferably funnelshaped, itsapex being of the same diameter, or nearly so, as that of the body ofthe vessel. Its base terminates ina short annular neck, 0, which isinserted into the opening a in the apex of the body of the vessel.Various methods of securing the mouth to the body of the vessel willreadily suggest themselves to the skilled mechanic, and I therefore donot confine myself to any particular device. Ordinarily, the two partswill fit so closely that no other means need be used to secure themtogether.

The exterior of the body of the vessel may be left plain, showing thenatural wood or material, or it may be ornamented byvarnishing,painting, or staining, or by any of the wellknown methods of decorating.The metallic mouth may be plated, painted, or japanned, or otherwisefinished. It will thus be seen that while the base construction is ofthe cheapest nature, the vessel produced is capable of being so highlyornamented that it closely resembles the costly grades of cuspadores.

Instead of making the base of wood,I sometimes propose to mold it fromglass, or from any plastic material, or from paper or paperpulp, fromclay, porcelain, or from any cheap material of a distinct and oppositenature to metal, applying in each case a light metallic receiving-mouth.

I claim as new, and as my invention 1. A cuspadore the body or base ofwhich is formed from wood, paper, paper-pulp, glass,

eiay, earthenware of a vitreous nature, or from other similar materials,and provided with a detachable receiving-mouth formed from sheet metal,substantially as herein shown and set forth.

2. In a cuspadore, the combination of a body or bowl made from wood orother light material, suoh body being formed in one piece, or of anumber of sections united, and a receiving-mouth, flaring orfunnel-shaped, and constructed from light metal, substantially as andfor the purposes as herein shown and setforth.

3. In a cuspadore, the combination of the body or base A, made oval orbowl-shaped, provided with opening a in its apex, such body beingconstructed from wood or other light material, in contradistinction tometal, and the detachable receiving-mouth B, formed from sheet metal,and provided at its base with the neck 0, the two united by a suitabledevice, substantially as herein shown and set forth.

EUGENE A. HEATH.

Witnesses:

A. L. MUNSON, ROYAL S. CRANE.

